Jorge Basadre Province is one of four

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

in the

Tacna Region Tacna (; Aymara & Quechua: Taqna) is the southernmost department and region in Peru. The Chilean Army occupied the present-day Tacna Department during the War of the Pacific from 1885 to 1929 when it was reincorporated into Peruvian soil. Geogr ...

in southern

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. Its capital is

Locumba Locumba is a town in the Tacna Region in southern Peru. It is the capital of Jorge Basadre Province. From 1890 to 1929, the town served as the provisional capital of Tacna Department due to the city of Tacna Tacna is a city in southern Peru and ...

. The province was created on April 21, 1988 (by law No. ''24799'') and is named after

Jorge Basadre Grohmann Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (February 12, 1903 – June 29, 1980) was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Educa ...

, the country's most notable

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Boundaries

*North:

Moquegua Region Moquegua () is a department and region in southern Peru that extends from the coast to the highlands. Its capital is the city of Moquegua, which is among the main Peruvian cities for its high rates of GDP and national education. Geography The ...

*East: Candarave Province *South:

Tacna Province Tacna is the largest of four provinces in the Department of Tacna in southern Peru located on the border with Chile and Bolivia. Its capital is Tacna. Geography The Tacna Province is bounded to the north by the Jorge Basadre Province and the T ...

*West:

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Political division

The province is divided into three districts ( es, distritos, singular: ), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''): * Ilabaya ( Ilabaya) * Ite (Ite) *

(

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Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by

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citizens of

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

and

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

descent.

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, however, is the language which the majority of the population (79.88%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.90% of the residents started speaking using the

Aymara language Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one millio ...

and 4.01% using

( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

References

External links

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Official Municipal website
Provinces of the Tacna Region {{Tacna-geo-stub